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tourguide

tourguide is the alternative form of tour guide.

Meaning of tour guide

Noun

tour guide (plural tour guides)

  1. One who provides assistance and information to people on organised tours.
    • Before he came to Stanford, Thrun had worked on robotic tour guides for museums in Germany, an interactive humanoid robot that worked in a nursing home near Pittsburgh, and a system of robots that could search out mines.2009, P[eter] W[arren] Singer, “Robotic Gods: Our Machine Creators”, in Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the Twenty-first Century, New York, N.Y.: The Penguin Press, →ISBN, page...
  2. Synonym of travel guide.
    • I opened my Bible at the first chapter of the Gospel according to St Mark and as I read, it was as if I were reading a tour guide of my own home district.1998, John Knape, “Pilgrimage to the Holy Land – 1958”, in Satanic Mills to Galilee, Bishop Auckland, Durham: The Pentland Press Limited, →ISBN, page 171
    Synonyms:
    travel guide

Forms of tourguide

pluraltourguides

Questions about tourguide

What is tourguide the alternative form of?
Tourguide is the alternative form of tour guide.

Words near tourguide in the dictionary

  1. Touretty
  2. tourgoer
  3. tourgoers
  4. tourgroup
  5. tourgroups
  6. tourguide
  7. tourguides
  8. touring
  9. touring bicycle
  10. touring bicycles
  11. touring car

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tourguide (page history and authors); tour guide (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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